http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nick Laird in The Guardian on merging science with poetry: How do you describe things of this size or length of time, this speed or heat? Experience, being broadly empirical, gives us no meaningful terms. What we do have is domestic analogies, and poems that reference outer space tend to ... http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/quantum-poetry/ After just watching Jurassic Park, this movie is frightening (and AWESOME): Before anyone screams 'SHOPPED!, this is not CGI or animatronics. The dinosaur is a large costume with a puppeteer inside, whose skinny legs you can see popping out the bottom. http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/dinosaur-roams-through-la-museum/ Baby's First Internet - It's not your job to right a wrong // just mark it FAIL and move along. http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/babys-first-internet/ Take a movie scene, add a completely inappropriate soundtrack, and ruin the scene: Well, ripersnifler might have just turned 2001 into the greatest music video, but you get the idea. It started on Something Awful, Kottke has a few more, and YouTube has them all. http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/ruined-scenes/ Not quite as world changing as Y Combinator's list of 30 startup ideas they would fund, Merlin Mann comes up with three iPhone Apps he would totally buy. The three apps are all great ideas, but the real gold is in the comments. http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/iphone-apps-waiting-to-happen/ Paul Graham posts venture capital firm Y Combinator's Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund. The list is 30 ideas long, and covers a wide breadth, from ousting Microsoft from their monopolizing grasp on office software (#11) to "[doing] to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica" (#23). http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/30-startups-waiting-to-happen/ The polymathematic Joey Comeau has started a series of interviews with people important to him: i am other people. The series begins with the illustrious Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics. Best part? Joey and Ryan are friends, and the interview reads like a conversation half the time, both of them ... http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/i-am-other-people/ http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/lego-stephen-hawking/ WATCHMEN TRAILER MARCH 2009 OMG PONIES Watch it in HD over at Apple Trailers. http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/who-watches-the-watchmen/ The Stand Ins, the upcoming album by Okkervil River to be released in September, has hit the underground internets, and well... First impressions? It's fantastic. Okkervil River has been smoothly putting out more and more upbeat songs since 2005's Black Sheep Boy, culminating in an album that takes all the ... http://www.undressmerobot.com/umrpress/the-stand-ins/